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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mikael Karpberg wrote:

> What's wrong with it? I mean, the exact format doesn't have to be exactly
> like that, but something along those lines, instead of screenfulls of
> useless messages every time you boot could really tidy the boot up, and
> look much nicer to newbies. Boot -v could print exactly what it does today.

They are not useless, but they could be made easier to read and I
don't even think anything as revolutionary as a tabular format is
necessary.  Each device comes with a "probe line" followed by
some other information.  Even a subtle display change from this:

da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) 
da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
da1: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da1: 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
cd0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
cd0: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8)
cd0: cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records]

To this:

da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
    <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
    10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
    1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) 
da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
    <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 
    10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled
    2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C)
cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
    <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 
    4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8)
    cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records]

makes it quite a bit easier to quickly zero in on the information
you are after.  The long string of almost-the-same three or four
letter device labels makes it cumbersome visually identify
distinct devices in the list.

If you want to see a real mess, watch a linux kernel booting....

-john


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